I don't need you to love me. I don't want you to hate me, but just don't judge a book by its… — Christian Laettner Copy Share Image
“The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from. — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“There is more important things in life to worry about instead of leaving nasty negative reviews on books. It shows a lot… — Rain Darrow Copy Share Image
“I know that sounds too earnest, but it’s true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
This life is an secret book,which time, what will happen no one knows and no one can predict but only on can… — Dolpalimala Copy Share Image
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Elaine: They're good people. They do good things, they READ. Jerry: I READ. Elaine: Books, Jerry. Jerry: Oh. Big deal.” — Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not that I studied everything in books, I just learned things from my real life experiences. An experience; an asset for… — Jessel Jane Zozobrado Copy Share Image
I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read… — Eddie Kaye Thomas Copy Share Image
There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
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